How to enable Gzip compression on cPanel server

Having a website that loads up quick does not only offer your clients a better experience, but is also an asset for better Google indexing. A website has multiple parameters that can be optimized in order to deliver content more quickly. In this article I will explain the simplest of them, Gzip compression. By enabling Gzip compression, the web server compresses your web pages, resulting smaller sized content that is faster delivered to web Browsers.

Enabling Gzip Support on cPanel Server

Firstly, you need to make sure Apache is build with Deflate module. This can be checked by running the following command in SSH as root: